The Works of the British Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Volumen8John & Arthur Arch; and for Bell & Bradfute, and J. Mundell & Company Edinburgh, 1795 |
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... thought becoming a perfon who has hardly credit enough to answer for his own . In this office of collecting my pieces , I am alto- gether uncertain , whether to look upon myfelf as a man building a monument , or burying the dead . If ...
... thought becoming a perfon who has hardly credit enough to answer for his own . In this office of collecting my pieces , I am alto- gether uncertain , whether to look upon myfelf as a man building a monument , or burying the dead . If ...
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... thought , but ne'er fo well exprefs'd ; Something , whofe truth convinc'd at fight we find , That gives us back the image of our mind . As fhades more fweetly recommend the light , So modeft plainnefs fets off fprightly wit ; For works ...
... thought , but ne'er fo well exprefs'd ; Something , whofe truth convinc'd at fight we find , That gives us back the image of our mind . As fhades more fweetly recommend the light , So modeft plainnefs fets off fprightly wit ; For works ...
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... thought meets thought , e'er from the lips it part , And each warm with fprings mutual from the heart . This fure is blifs ( if blifs on earth there be ) , And once the lot of Abelard and me . Alas , how chang'd ! what fudden horrors ...
... thought meets thought , e'er from the lips it part , And each warm with fprings mutual from the heart . This fure is blifs ( if blifs on earth there be ) , And once the lot of Abelard and me . Alas , how chang'd ! what fudden horrors ...
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... thought your patience had been better try'd : Is this your love , ungrateful and unkind , This my reward for having cur'd the blind ? Why was I taught to make my husband fee , By ftruggling with a man upon a tree ? Did I for this the ...
... thought your patience had been better try'd : Is this your love , ungrateful and unkind , This my reward for having cur'd the blind ? Why was I taught to make my husband fee , By ftruggling with a man upon a tree ? Did I for this the ...
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... thought : Such this day's doctrine - in another fit She fins with poets through pure love of wit . What has not fir'd her bofom or her brain ? Cæfar and Tall - boy , Charles and Charlemagne . VARIATIONS . Ver . 77. What has not fir'd ...
... thought : Such this day's doctrine - in another fit She fins with poets through pure love of wit . What has not fir'd her bofom or her brain ? Cæfar and Tall - boy , Charles and Charlemagne . VARIATIONS . Ver . 77. What has not fir'd ...
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